Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-02-08
A FIRM FOREIGN POLICY.
MORGAN FINISHES HIS SPEECH
ON THE EADS BILL.

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WASHINGTON, Feb. This afternoon
the Senate resumed consideration of the
Eads Tehuantepec bill, and Mr.. Morgan
continued his speech in support of it.
After reciting the features OF the Clayton
Bulwer treaty he said there had
been free expression OF opinion by the
Presdents and Secretaries OF State as 10
the obligations resting ON the govern
ment of the United States and as to it's
oo-relative rights, and they had uniformly
been OF the tendency that this
government was obliged to protect COM
merce across the isthmus. In addition
to the rights conferred by the treaty OF
1916, the Monroe doctrine was a safe
foundation for any interference that this
government might chose to make with the
operations of any company acting un-
der the guarantee Of a foreign power and
seeking to establish any exclusive or pc.
cullar right Of transit on that isthmus.
He thought it high time to have an under
standing with other powers, particularly
with Colombia, as TO American rights and
privileges there.
BRITISH ACTIVITY.
The acts of the British government in
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| Panama in settling down and preparing
to fortity them was notification of it's
purpose to place itself in a position to
command the Panama end of the canal,
| while on this side of the lsthmus it had a
| similarly strong position in the island Of
Jamaica. Jamaica was as near to the
isthmus OF Panama as the island OF Cyprus
was to the Susz canal. The time was
| as ripe, perhaps, now as it ever would be
| for tho dQnlprQ tim Of n fl Annriaan
policy as to this great Mediterranean to
| the south of the United States. 1t was no
| time for falteriHg, no time for mi6undeT-
| standing, no time for procrastlnation eOr
| delay. But it was high time that there was
announced and established in the face Of
the world, sedately and justly and hon.
estly, the policy which the American peo-
pie were ready to pursue on this question.
| In the absence of distinctive American
! policy, in the absence OF an express de-
termination to do what duty demanded
| for the present and for posterity, Congress
| might well halt and hesitate in advancing
any proposition that had for its object the
| final practical solution of that cloud of
mist and doubt and disturbance which
| had existed ever since the ratification of
! the ClayJon-Bulwer treaty.
PROPOSED AMENDMENT.
He intended to offer an amendment to
| bu6 Dlil IEbeINluE W Jub 2ON6Tn-
| ment OF the United States full and un-
/ qualified rights and privileges in any rail-
road or canal across the Isthmus OF Te-
hauntepec which were secured to the
United States by Article of the Gadsden
treaty of 1858. Another objection which
he had 10 the bill was that he regarded
the rates of toll fixed in the concession as
too high, for instance, $5 per cubic metre
of freight, $15 per passenger, and one per
| nf Ia alma ailyar in ha n
gold and precious stones. He did not see
any advantage which the government Of
the United States was TO get in exchange
for this charter.
A BOLD FRONT.
But he was still willing to vote for it,
provided the amendment which he sug.
gested was put in the body of the charter.
He was willing to unite with the Senator
from Missouri Mr.. Vest), who had
charge OF this bill, and with every Re.
publican and Democrat, and say to those
who threw themselves back on the Clay
ton-Bulwer treaty: 1--WE have had Just ae
much of that as we intend to stand. You
designed that treaty for the purpose OF
making US enter into an agreement with
you which nullifed the Monroe doctrine.
AN INDIAN KING.
sin 1925, when the Monroe doctrine
was promulgated, the first act OF the
British government was to 90 to Belize
and convert privilege which she had to
cut and saw lOgwoOd into right of SOY.
ereignty in that part OF Honduras, and to
crown a miserable. filthy, wTetched, ig-
norant Indian as King of Belize, and after
he had abbreviated his life by drunken
| saturnalia and was about to leave this
mundane sphere, he bestowed his royal
| honOrs by beQuest on subaltern English
officer, then IN Belize, who then became
KING.
A DELIBERATE INSULT.
'|Tbat was intended to be a conspicu.
| GUS affront to the American people, VINO
! had been bOa5ting great respect and rev.
erence for the famous Monroe doctrine,
and a great determination to support it,
Great Britain had fouted the United
States in the face with that sans culOtte
of an Indian, crowning him on America II
1 soil as a response TO the enunciation Of
! the Monroe doctrine. He hoped that Lhe
! people of the United States had at last ar
rived at that point OF determination when
they would say tothe government OF Great
| Britain whatever is essential for us to
have in the way OF transit across this
isthmus for the passage of our armies,
our ships, our merchandise and our coast
wise trade, that We are entitled to in nat
ural justice, and that we Will have"
NO POOLING TO BE BRooKED.
"Whoever undertook" he said, ITO cut
through the Isthmus and convert it into a
part OF the high seas, must first ascertain
from the United States government wheth-
er it was entirely compatible with Ameri.
can interests and wishes that it should be
done. A line cut through the isthmus
would constitute in point Of fact part OF
the coast line Of the United States, and 1t
ought TO constitute II In point OF law, and
the government OF Nicaragua mad no more
right TO change the coast line of the uni
ted states in relation to Great Britain, or
any other power, without the conse mt uf
the United States, than she had a right to
change the coast line between the capes
| OF Florida and bay OF Galveston"
THE TWO PROJECTS.
He thought, however, that as between
the Thuantepec project and the Nicaragua
canal project, the advantages were with
| the latter. he did not mention that, how
ever, with view OF disparaglng the prop
osition before the Senate. The two pro-
| jects would be weighed by capitalists,
who would put their money in whicheve er
they regarded as the better. The duty of
the Senate was 10 20 as far as 1t could
with proprlety in enabling both corpora
tions 70 get u foothOld, and 10 establish
themselves II they could do so. In con-
clusion, he said that he was In favor OF the
| Nicaragua project, Of the Tehuantepec
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